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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · St Louis, MO · November 6, 1991

Date
November 6, 1991 · 20:23 local
Place
St Louis, MO
Airport
Spirit Of St Louis Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N995EA
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,300 total900 in this make and model60 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot mistook a water filled ditch as an ice covered taxiway. Propellers struck runway. Poor taxiway lighting.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MISTOOK A WATER FILLED DITCH AS AN ICE COVERED TAXIWAY. PROPELLERS STRUCK RUNWAY. POOR TAXIWAY LIGHTING.

Other reports on N995EA · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.